[90] A paraphrase of Horace's well-known lines: "Linquenda tellus, et domus, et placens Uxor; neque harum, quas colis, arborum, Te, praeter invisas cupressos, Ulla brevem dominum sequeter.

"Non uxor salvum te vult, non filius, omnes Vicini oderunt," "wife and children, friends, neighbours, all the world forsakes them, would feign be rid of them," and are compelled many times to lay violent hands on them, or else God's judgments overtake them: instead of graces, come furies.

The husband rules her as head, but she again commands his heart, he is her servant, she is only joy and content: no happiness is like unto it, no love so great as this of man and wife, no such comfort as placens uxor, a sweet wife: Omnis amor magnus, sed aperto in conjuge major.

And in their old age, when they make much of one another, saying, as he did to his wife in the poet, "Uxor vivamus quod viximus, et moriamur, Servantes nomen sumpsimus in thalamo; Nec ferat ulla dies ut commutemur in aevo, Quin tibi sim juvenis, tuque puella mihi.

" The same passion made her break out in the comedy, Nae illae fortunatae, sunt quae cum illo cubant, "happy are his bedfellows;" and as she said of Cyprus, Beata quae illi uxor futura esset, blessed is that woman that shall be his wife, nay, thrice happy she that shall enjoy him but a night.

"A woman and death are two the bitterest things in the world:" uxor mihi ducenda est hodie, id mihi visus est dicere, abi domum et suspende te.

Uxor nomen dignitatis, non voluptatis, as he said,

7. Regis filia, Regis uxor, Regis mater. 1774.

Uxor Hen. 8. 1969.

Alium paupertas, alium orbitas, hunc morbi, illum timor, alium injuriae, hunc insidiae, illum uxor, filii distrahunt, Cardan. 3562.

Si id studes ut uxor, amici, liberi perpetuo vivant, stultus es. 3920.

An uxor literato sit ducenda.

Febris hectica uxor, et non nisi morte avellenda.

Subegit ancillas quod uxor ejus deformior esset. 5796.

Si uxor deesset, nihil mihi ad summam felicitatem defuisset.

Uxor cujusdam nobilis quum debitum maritale sacro passionis hebdomada non obtineret, alterum adiit.

Argetocoxi Caledoni Reguli uxor, Juliae Augustae cum ipsam

Quum accepisset uxorem peperisse secundo a nuptiis mense, cunas quinas vel senas coemit, ut si forte uxor singulis bimensibus pareret.

Uxor caeca ducat maritum surdum, &c. 6299.

Uxor Mercatoris diu vexationibus tentata, &c. 6752.

Juxta sepulta est HESTERA MARIA, Thomae Cotton de Combermere, baronetti Cestriensis, filia, Johannis Salusbury, armigeri Flintiensis, uxor, Forma felix, felix ingenio; Omnibus jucunda, suorum amantissima.

Forma animos hominum capit, at, si gratia desit, Non tenet; esca natat pulchra, sed hamus abest, Cogitat aut loquitur nil vir, nil cogitat uxor, Felici thalamo non, puto, rixa strepit.

" Et miro gaudio afficitur Thomas luce posterâ quod subsequenti (nempe, Dominicâ) uxor sit efferenda.

But the title had to be conferred; hence we read, "Domitian uxorem suam Augustam jussit nuncupari;" and "Flavia Titiana, eadem die, uxor ejus [i.e. Pertinax] Augusta est appellata.

Sir,In looking over some ancient charters a few days ago, I met with one dated 22 Edw. III, by which "Willielmus de Bolton clericus et Goditha uxor ejus," release a claim to certain lands.